Krispy Kreme doughnut shops used to dot the Florida landscape. In the early ’80s many closed. In the past 10 years many new Krispy Kreme stores were built again across the state. Here’s one of the new ones in Winter[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visits the Venice Train Depot, at 303 E. Venice Avenue., historic site. Not surprisingly the depot is home to the Venice Historical Society. Click here for more information about the historical society. The railroad station was active until 1991[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy makes his way towards the Georgia border with a stop to Falling Creek Falls. Here’s a very brief look at a park that has much one can discover much in. The park in Columbia County has one of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visits Billie’s Swamp Safari near the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation. Click here for more information about this great park! Here’s the welcoming sign… There are Seminole chickees all over the park. Here’s one that has demonstrations of the traditional[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been over a month since the Marion Theater reopened in all it’s glory. It’s one of a handful of grand dames of the early theatre set in Florida to be showing first run films. The theater originally opened with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy jumped into the ‘Hands Across the Sand’ in Cocoa Beach on Saturday, June 26th, for one reason: Tourism is more important than endangering our economy and, moreover, the public safety of Florida’s citizens. There sure were a lot of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
… and her name is MA ASHLEY! Here’s a preliminary sketch of a new character entering the strip soon. Ma is a Swamp Ape hunter and is after Swampy. Problem is he ain’t easy to catch and he moves around[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visits Inverness and the Withlacoochee State Trail located in Liberty Park at the end of North Pine Avenue, north of Hwy 41. At the park is the wonderful train caboose… Across from the caboose is the oldest standing train[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here Swampy finds the Southgate sign at the Southgate Shopping Center on US98 in Lakeland. Click here to learn a lot more about the sign and the shopping center from the Lakeland Ledger. Below is a photo of shops inside[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…